I know this will not be a popular take, but surely I am not the only one who is super tired of endless control surfaces for the same FM and Karplus-Strong algos.

I'm a weirdo, but I love the sound of acoustic and/or sampled instruments - especially drums - over the metallic plonks that supposedly sound like "flute" any day of the week.

Don't get me wrong: the M-VAVE is looking like the Flipper Zero of music hacking, and the price is a steal. But at the end of the day, these sounds only really work for certain genres of music and even then there's only so many wavetable shapes before the same-ness has to set in.